I am using Vista Business with Internet Explorer 7.0. On I.E. 6 it had a
feature that when you clicked on a link it would deselect/change color. If
you would click on the link, go to the next page, then use your back button
you would see the link still changed in the different color so you knew it
was the one used. So far I cannot find how to set 7.0 up to do this. Right
now the link will change color but if you go to another page and then use the
back button tab the link is back to blue. So you know the links that I am
speaking of is underlined links. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi,
I nearly always open links in a new window or new tab and hadn't noticed
this. Try this, once you go back to the original page, click once on the
page (not on a link.) Does that make your visited links change color?

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"photonutt" <photonutt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am using Vista Business with Internet Explorer 7.0. On I.E. 6 it had a
> feature that when you clicked on a link it would deselect/change color.
If
> you would click on the link, go to the next page, then use your back
button
> you would see the link still changed in the different color so you knew it
> was the one used. So far I cannot find how to set 7.0 up to do this.
Right
> now the link will change color but if you go to another page and then use
the
> back button tab the link is back to blue. So you know the links that I am
> speaking of is underlined links. Any ideas? Thanks

Sorry Don, no difference. Thanks for trying. Tim

> Hi,
> I nearly always open links in a new window or new tab and hadn't noticed
> this. Try this, once you go back to the original page, click once on the
> page (not on a link.) Does that make your visited links change color?
>
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
> "photonutt" <photonutt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5FEA00D4-4334-4ADD-9E66-C5AAF2743715@microsoft.com...
> > I am using Vista Business with Internet Explorer 7.0. On I.E. 6 it had a
> > feature that when you clicked on a link it would deselect/change color.
> If
> > you would click on the link, go to the next page, then use your back
> button
> > you would see the link still changed in the different color so you knew it
> > was the one used. So far I cannot find how to set 7.0 up to do this.
> Right
> > now the link will change color but if you go to another page and then use
> the
> > back button tab the link is back to blue. So you know the links that I am
> > speaking of is underlined links. Any ideas? Thanks
>
>

"photonutt" <photonutt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5FEA00D4-4334-4ADD-9E66-C5AAF2743715@microsoft.com...
>I am using Vista Business with Internet Explorer 7.0. On I.E. 6 it had a
> feature that when you clicked on a link it would deselect/change color. If
> you would click on the link, go to the next page, then use your back button
> you would see the link still changed in the different color so you knew it
> was the one used. So far I cannot find how to set 7.0 up to do this. Right
> now the link will change color but if you go to another page and then use the
> back button tab the link is back to blue. So you know the links that I am
> speaking of is underlined links. Any ideas? Thanks


It's possible that use of the Back button excludes parts of a full re-rendering.
To test that idea instead of using your History to "go back" to that first page,
copy the link to the first page to ClipBoard (e.g. press Alt-d,Ctrl-c). Use the
link as you did with the previous test. Start a new tab with about:Blank. (Ctrl-t)
Then paste the link into the Address bar and go to the first page that way. (Ctrl-v, Enter.)

Does that change your symptom? Notice that since each tab maintains its own
browse stack that you can even switch back to the first tab and see if using
the Back button then gives you the rendering you were expecting or the
initial rendering of the page (e.g. the one it had before you used one of its
links.)

If the latter is the case then you could use a second link on
the first page then use Back to confirm that the first link is then
showing as being used but the second is still not yet so marked.
That would be more proof that the page's rendering was being
saved and when you went back to it it was not being re-rendered.

I would expect possibly different results by setting Work Offline
before using the Back button and scripting might be a factor too.

Please post a specific link to use in further discussion if you need
more help.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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